The way the Jedi treat Aniseya’s sect and how they reference the laws of the Republic makes one think that things have changed drastically in the 100 years between the books of “The High Republic,” set a century prior, and the current time this show is set. Since we don’t know what happened to the Nihil definitively, it could be easy to assume that they are partly responsible for these new laws that would prevent the witches from training new children. There’s a chance these witches could even be connected to the Nihil somehow, or any of the other sects that were part of the Convocation of the Force.
As I observed their similarities, I remembered the mountain clans of Dathomir introduced in “Tales of the Empire” earlier this year, and I also wondered if this could be some distant splinter group of the Nightsisters, though not the Nightsisters themselves.
Whatever Aniseya’s sect ends up being, however, there is a firm precedent in the recent history of “Star Wars” for their existence, and they feel not just inspired by the Nightsisters, as Headland says, but intimately related to them. We’ll just have to tune in to further episodes to learn more.
New episodes of “The Acolyte” debut on Disney+ on Tuesdays at 9:00pm ET.
